Guy Fieri is on the mend after an accident on the set of his upcoming series Flavortown Food Fight!
The 57-year-old Food Network host has revealed he was taken to the hospital after slipping down some stairs and was rushed to an emergency surgery.
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“[I] slipped down a set of steps, and one foot went forward and the other foot got caught on the threshold. So, you know, it extended me out,” he told Fox News Digital. “I looked like I was probably doing the splits, but when my right leg compressed into itself the giveaway point and the doctor said he’s never seen — you know, in 20 years — he hasn’t seen a tear in the biggest, thickest part of your quad in half. Yeah, it sucked.”
Guy shared that he had to be rushed to surgery to make sure his muscles didn’t “recede.”
“You normally tear that muscle at your tendon or the tendon tears off the bone, but this was right in the center of the whole quad muscle and it exploded,” he explained.
“So, right in the middle of filming that and we’ve got everybody in town and all the chefs there and 125 people on set – and everybody’s ready to go – and I’m in surgery,” Guy continued, explaining his injuries have been a “damper.” “So, we figured out how to pivot through it and to have some creative filming techniques. But it’s been a run, and now I’m up here at the ranch, where it’s always about hiking and outdoors, and you know, beautiful.”
The restaurateur noted that he’s in a wheelchair and using crutches, and has stay off of his feet for eight weeks.
“Eight weeks of no weight on it, crutches and a cast and then the rehab, which to me – I want to get after it as fast as possible. He’s like, ‘You know as much as you want to, get back to being Guy, you’re going to really have to go through [it],’” he said.
“I haven’t busted anything. I mean I broke it all as a kid. I broke my leg, broke my knee, broke my wrist, broke my sternum, my ribs, my tailbone. I mean, you know, name it, I broke it. But I got done doing that sh-t. You know, I got done with that type of behavior long ago,” he added.
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